The Naadam 2017 Organising Committee held a meeting on 29th of June.

‘Playtime’ – Mongolia’s biggest annual live music festival has been postponed because of the second phase of the Presidential Election. Voting and ‘Playtime’ were both scheduled to take place on 9th of July.

Cathay Pacific and MIAT Mongolian Airlines today announced a new codeshare agreement which is set to benefit the customers of both airlines.

The Mongolian Cabinet discussed the second ballot of the presidential election during its regular meeting on 28th of June.

The country marks Mongolian Athletes’ Day on the first Sunday of July every year. On 1st of July, Athlete Day will be celebrated on Ulaanbaatar’s Chinggis Square.

Engineers are working for restore service in the vast majority of homes in some provinces of Mongolia that lost power during intense winds on 28th of June.

The Gobi Cashmere plant, one of the largest factories in Mongolia has recovered from their recent fire incident and is now operating normally, the company reports.

The first women to travel into space was Soviet-born Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, who in addition to being a cosmonaut was also Russia’s first female general as well as an engineer, master of sport and politician.

H.E. Stefan Duppe, Germany’s Ambassador to Mongolia has handed over the musical score of the soundtrack to the movie ‘Mongolian Beautiful Country’ to Deputy Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh, who is also in charge of the Naadam 2017 Organising Committee.

Prague zoo completed its seventh transport last week, releasing four mares born in captivity in the Czech Republic, Germany and Denmark in the Gobi desert. They will spend the next year in an enclosed area to acclimatize before being freed.